[Footnote 1423: "Ephémérides du citoyen," II. 202, 203.--Voltaire, "Dictionnaire philosophique," article "Curé de Campagne."--Abbé Guettée, "Histoire de l'Eglise de France," XII. 130.]
[Footnote 1424: Those entitled to tithes in cereals.--TR.]
[Footnote 1425: A curate's salary at the present day (1875) is, at the minimum, 900 francs with a house and perquisites.]
[Footnote 1426: Théron de Montaugé, "L'Agriculture les classes rurale, dans le pays Toulousain," p. 86.]
[Footnote 1427: Périn, "la Jeunesse de Robespierre," grievances of the rural parishes of Artois, p. 320.--Boivin-Champeaux, ibid.. pp. 65, 68.--Hippeau, ibid.. VI. p. 79, et VII. 177.--Letter of M. Sergent, curate of Vallers, January 27, 1790. (Archives nationales, DXIX. portfolio 24.) Letter of M. Briscard, curate of Beaumont-la-Roger, diocese of Evreux, December 19, 1789. (ibid.. DXIX. portfolio 6.) "Tableau moral du clergé de France" (1789), p. 2.]
[Footnote 1428: He who has the right of receiving the first year's income of a parish church after a vacancy caused by death.--TR.]
[Footnote 1429: One who performs masses for the dead at fixed epochs.--TR.]
[Footnote 1430: Grievances on the additional burdens which the Third-Estate have to support, by Gautier de Bianzat (1788), p 237.]
[Footnote 1431: Hippeau, ibid. VI. 164. (Letter of the Curate of Marolles and of thirteen others,. Letter of the bishop of Evreux, March 20, 1789. Letter of the abbé d'Osmond, April 2, 1789).--Archives nationales, manuscript documents (proces-verbeaux) of the States-General, V. 148. pp. 245-47. Registers of the curates of Toulouse, t. 150, p. 282, in the representations of the Dijon chapter.]
[Footnote 1432: De Toqueville, book II. This capital truth as been established by M. de Tocqueville with superior discernment.]
[Footnote 1433: A term indicating a certain division of the kingdom of France to facilitate the collection of taxes. Each generalship was subdivided into elections, in which there was a tribunal called the bureau of finances. (TR.)]
[Footnote 1434: Remonstrances of Malesherbes; Registers by Turgot and Necker to the king, (Laboulaye, "De l'administration française sous Louis XVI, Revue des cours littéraires, IV. 423, 759, 814.)]